Kyle Moffett wrote:
On Nov 04, 2006, at 18:38:11, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
But how will fdisk deal with it? Fdisk by default aligns partitions on
63-sector boundary, so it will make all sectors misaligned and
seriously kill performance even if filesystem uses proper 8-sector
aligned accesses.
Don't use a partition-table format that dates back to drives with actual
reported physical geometry and which also maxed out at 2MB or so? Even
the mac-format partition tables (which aren't that much newer) don't
care about physical drive geometry.
Besides, unless you're running DOS, Windows 95, or some random ancient
firmware that looks at your partition tables or whatever you can just
tell fdisk to ignore the 63-sector-alignment constraint and align your
partitions more efficiently anyways. But if you're dealing with
hardware so new it supports 4k or 8k sectors, you really should be using
EFI or something.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
Actually, DOS/Win9x should handle arbitrary alignment just fine (except
possibly some very very old versions of DOS which assumed that the first
four sectors of IO.SYS all fell within the same track -- but I'm pretty
sure that the FORMAT and SYS programs would align it for you.)
-hpa
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